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    • Re: 0 Days Since Last Shooting: Reset The Calendar Again

      Originally posted by Drew S. View Post
      Where in my post did I say we should look backwards for a solution?
      Your solution seems to be that we become some Utopian society where we all hold hands and sing Kumbaya. Come with us into the real world where we discuss real solutions like grown up adults.

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      • Re: 0 Days Since Last Shooting: Reset The Calendar Again

        The NRA, like the GOP, is a cult. Its singular purpose is to line its own pockets, much like the Republican party, and will resort to more and more wacko conspiracy theories and loony rhetoric in order to keep its fellow cult members focused. The only, and I mean only, thing either one of these organizations understand is losing at the ballot box. That's it. There's no point in trying to reason with them. So elect Dems up and down the ballot. No GOP, no 3rd party, no sitting at home on election day with your thumb up your a ss. There's elections coming up in November. You know what to do.
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        • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
          1. A far right fascistic media that has been spreading fear and hatred for thirty years.

          2. Our slide into corporate feudalism in which profits outrank life and lobbies like the NRA own Congress.

          3. The grave imbalance in passion among left and right voters. The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

          4. The damage of thirty years of Republican political malfeasance: perpetual war, an explosion of inequality, mass hopelessness, and resentment born of insecurity.
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          • Originally posted by dave122793 View Post
            Your solution seems to be that we become some Utopian society where we all hold hands and sing Kumbaya. Come with us into the real world where we discuss real solutions like grown up adults.
            Surely there is a middle ground between utopia and where we are now. The US/world will never be perfect, but that isn’t a reason it can’t be better than it is right now. Reducing access to guns doesn’t solve the underlying issues.
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            • Re: 0 Days Since Last Shooting: Reset The Calendar Again

              Originally posted by Drew S. View Post
              Surely there is a middle ground between utopia and where we are now. The US/world will never be perfect, but that isn’t a reason it can’t be better than it is right now. Reducing access to guns doesn’t solve the underlying issues.
              Yes there is a middle ground. It's called protecting our innocent citizens while you come up with the magical plan to fix society.

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              • Re: 0 Days Since Last Shooting: Reset The Calendar Again

                Originally posted by joecct View Post
                Ahh the Party Theoretician who is never wrong.
                When you have no rebuttal of substance attack the messenger.
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                • Originally posted by Drew S. View Post
                  Reducing access to guns doesn’t solve the underlying issues.
                  But it has reduced mass murder elsewhere where it has occurred.

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                  • Re: 0 Days Since Last Shooting: Reset The Calendar Again

                    Originally posted by Rover View Post
                    The NRA, like the GOP, is a cult. Its singular purpose is to line its own pockets, much like the Republican party, and will resort to more and more wacko conspiracy theories and loony rhetoric in order to keep its fellow cult members focused. The only, and I mean only, thing either one of these organizations understand is losing at the ballot box. That's it. There's no point in trying to reason with them. So elect Dems up and down the ballot. No GOP, no 3rd party, no sitting at home on election day with your thumb up your a ss. There's elections coming up in November. You know what to do.
                    This is exactly true, at least for now. The GOP's incentives are more shootings, more anger, more death, more chaos. It thrives on the fear and resentment that grow from these events. The only way to bring them back to sanity is to deprive them of oxygen.

                    The GOP is a terrorist organization. They cannot be reasoned with or negotiated with, only defeated. The people they have hoodwinked are lost. Cut them off and let them bleed out.
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                    • Re: 0 Days Since Last Shooting: Reset The Calendar Again

                      “What they want are more restrictions on the law-abiding,” the head of the NRA said of Democrats. “Think about that, their solution is to make you, all of you, less free.”
                      https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/u...imes&smtyp=cur

                      OXON HILL, Md. — The head of the National Rifle Association, speaking publicly on Thursday for the first time since last week’s deadly school shooting, defended gun ownership while criticizing the news media, Democrats and the F.B.I.
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                      • Re: 0 Days Since Last Shooting: Reset The Calendar Again

                        Wayne LaPierre, leader of the National Rifle Association, told a conservative convention on Thursday that gun control advocates care more about destroying liberty than protecting kids.
                        https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...safety-n850236

                        Let that one sink in for a minute. There are so many things that come to mind but I'm going to refrain. It's like a colorful rainbow and I don't want to ruin it by highlighting only one color.
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                        • Re: 0 Days Since Last Shooting: Reset The Calendar Again

                          He gets better.

                          Despite the fact that Republicans control both chambers in Congress and the White House and President Donald Trump suggested Thursday morning he's open to gun reforms the NRA opposes, LaPierre spent a significant portion of his remarks warning of expanding socialist political ideas and he called out rising-star Democratic lawmakers -- many of them potential 2020 candidates -- by name. He criticized independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, California Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren and other high-profile Democrats, whom he accused of backing European style socialism as well creating new victimized groups and hurling insults at conservatives.
                          "Socialism is a movement that loves a smear," he said.

                          Staring out into the audience, LaPierre told onlookers "you should be anxious and you should be frightened" about the potential of another Democratic takeover of the House, Senate and White House.
                          https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/22/polit...nra/index.html
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                          • Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
                            They dont have to worry, dems are too lazy to vote.

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                              This is my favorite quote. Cause I'm a "they".

                              “They don’t care about our schoolchildren,” LaPierre said near the start of the Conservative Political Action Conference
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                              • Re: 0 Days Since Last Shooting: Reset The Calendar Again

                                While Trump lies about all the stuff he says he's going to do. Here's what's really happening in his administration.

                                WASHINGTON — For years, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been overlooked in Washington. Overshadowed by more politically powerful law enforcement agencies like the F.B.I., the A.T.F. garnered headlines mostly for notorious episodes, including the deadly 1993 siege in Waco, Tex., and the “Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal more than a decade later.

                                Now, the A.T.F. is on the verge of a crisis. The agency, which has not grown significantly since its founding in 1973, is about to confront a staffing shortage and is set to lose its tobacco and alcohol enforcement authorities. President Trump has yet to nominate a director to oversee the agency, which has been without permanent leadership for eight of the past 12 years.

                                Amid the dearth of leadership and resources, the White House is pushing the A.T.F. to the forefront of its fight against violent crime. In response to the mass shooting at a Florida high school last week, Mr. Trump, who promised to fight violent criminal gangs and illegal guns — two of the A.T.F.’s key missions — announced that he would be relying on the bureau to regulate so-called bump stock accessories.

                                But it is all but politically impossible for Mr. Trump, who counts the powerful gun lobby among his most ardent supporters, to strengthen the A.T.F. The National Rifle Association has long sought to hobble the agency in an effort to curb its ability to regulate guns, which the gun lobby has traditionally opposed.

                                “Most people in law enforcement know why A.T.F. can’t get a director,” said Michael Bouchard, a former agent and the president of the A.T.F. Association, an independent group that supports current and former bureau officials. “It’s not because of the people. It’s because of the politics.”

                                For decades, the N.R.A. has used its sway in Washington to preserve the A.T.F. in its limited capacity. It has aggressively lobbied against nominated directors and pushed Congress to enact restrictions on how the bureau spends money to curtail its ability to regulate firearms and track gun crimes. One funding provision, for example, forbids the A.T.F. from using electronic databases to trace guns to owners. Instead, the agency relies on a warehouse full of paper records.
                                https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/u...imes&smtyp=cur
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